HOLY DIRT is a vibrant, funny, and beautifully episodic performance that playfully explores the mythic feminine as she struggles ridiculously through our climate catastrophe - she stumbles, she dances, she transforms.
Clay, stones, water, and sand erupt across the space in a visually startling drama set to a rich global soundscape, where the rawness of earth converges with myth and ritual.
@ Brighton Festival on 23 & 24 May 2026 ( Black Rock)
A collaboration between David Glass and Vidya Thirunarayan
Music by Foz Foster
Performered by Dale Wylde & Vidya Thirunarayan
Grateful for the support from @withoutwalls.uk@aceagrams and commissioning partner @inkocentre20
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Directed & Designed by David Glass
Composed by Foz Foster
Performed by Dale Wylde & Vidya Thirunarayan 📸 WithoutWalls
Grateful for the support by @aceagrams@withoutwalls.uk . Commissioning partner @inkocentre20
‘Works reveal themselves for those who have the eyes 👀 to see’ says ceramicist Jason Wason in an email to @tccdancingpots Vidya Thirunarayan, herself a performer and ceramic maker. She muses ‘one needs a thousand eyes’.
Touring with her show ‘Holy Dirt’ you can catch Vidya at the Norfolk and Norwich festival on Saturday 9th May and also at Brighton festival on 23rd and 24th May.
Image credit: Robert Golden; performers featured: Sasha Krohn and Vidya Thirunarayan
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Some moments stay with you long after they pass—this is one of them.
Lives of Clay had a spectacular handcrafted set. Nadeem, who dressed the set, has an effortless flair for it. In his quiet way he moved between corners, shaping little landscapes with bricks, sand, scraps of hessian and broken pottery. I loved watching him create that ‘carefully careless’ look. This remains my favourite moment from the 6am—yes, at sunrise!—show in Chennai.
‘Clay, cues and cardboard houses: A day in the double life of a Performer-director’
‘… an alertness in the body and spirit that says, this moment is everything’
Bharatanatyam artist, ceramicist and performer Vidya Thirunarayan gives her inside view - linktreeinbio
Photos: Robert Golden
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